As in our EU and Latin American editions, this 1st US edition aims to catalyse a constructive dialogue and a wide informed consensus on the role of new international non-governmental standards and certifications for ICT services with ultra-high levels of assurance – for communications, constitutional lawful access and artificial intelligence – that are able to grant unprecedented and constitutionally– meaningful* levels of e-privacy and e-security to all, while increasing public safety and cyber-investigation capabilities.

Speakers

JOHN C. HAVENS

Executive Director of the IEEE Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in the Design of Autonomous Systems. The newly launched Initiative aggregates top executives from leading global public and private AI entities to define new international ethics, standards and ultimately certifications for AI to promote the public good.

Joseph Cannataci

UN Special Rapporteur on the Right of Privacy. Head of the Department of Information Policy & Governance at the Faculty of Media & Knowledge Sciences of the University of Malta. Chair of European Information Policy & Technology Law within the Faculty of Law at the University of Groningen.

Simone Halink

Co-chair of An Internet Safe and Secure Working Group of the Freedom Online Coalition. FOC is a group of 29 nations “committed to work together to support Internet freedom and protect fundamental human rights – free expression, association, assembly, and privacy online – worldwide“.

10.00 – Panel on CHALLENGE A: How can we achieve ultra-high assurance ICT?!Is it feasible to provide ordinary citizens access to affordable and user-friendly complete ICT services with levels of trustworthiness that are meaningfully-abiding to the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, as a supplement to their every-day computing devices?If so, how? What standards, standard setting and certifications processes can enable users to reliably assess their actual trustworthiness? What scale of investments are needed? How likely is it that they would sustainably be legally allowed? (See Backgrounder on Challenge A)

16.30 – Panel on CHALLENGE D:What are the national policy or international treaty options for ultra-high assurance ICT standards in critical societal domains?What constituent processes can ensure a timely, effective and democratically-efficient implementation – by a critical mass of actors – of meaningfully-enforceable national policies or international treaties for ultra-high assurance IT standards setting and certification processes?! (Backgrounder on Challenge D)